Definitions for mutation

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mutation mu·ta·tion

Spelling: [myoo-tey-shuh n]

IPA: /myuˈteɪ ʃən/

Mutation is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in mutation (aimnottu).

Definitions for mutation

noun

1. Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
2. the act or process of changing.
3. a change or alteration, as in form or nature.
4. Phonetics. umlaut.
5. Linguistics. (in Celtic languages) syntactically determined morphophonemic phenomena that affect initial sounds of words.

Origin of mutation

1325-75; Middle English mutacio(u)n Latin mūtātion- (stem of mūtātiō) a changing. See mutate, -ion

Examples for mutation

A rough-hewn resemblance is first brought about by a process of mutation.

The situation is not symmetrical because the mutation is not complete.

Here we seem to have a plain statement of the origin of new forms by mutation.

Those with the disease have some cells that are genetically normal and some with the mutation.

If a mutation makes a single cell deaf to the needs of its body, it can develop into a tumor.

For some illnesses, having a mutation in one specific gene usually—but not always—caused disease.

This was a mutation of a relationship that should, in theory, be unbreakably strong.

Apart from every thing else, it was a mournful witness to the world's mutation.

The answer may be that the birther phenomenon is a mutation of a political virus called incoherence.

Time is, therefore, not a factor in the mutation of species.